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Category Archives: My family
The storms of spring Note: The Legal Genealogist doesn’t make a practice of reprinting earlier posts. But the horror of yesterday’s news out of Moore, Oklahoma, has my cousin Thelma so front-and-center for me, and her story so much in … Continue reading
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Would that he were still here… Yesterday would have been his 96th birthday. Tall, slim, even stately in his bearing, he occupied a special place in The Legal Genealogist‘s family history… and he is missed. Frederick Merledon Gottlieb was born … Continue reading
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Congratulations to the nieces! Speaking at the National Genealogical Society conference today in Las Vegas has relieved The Legal Genealogist from a terrible dilemma: how to be in two places at one time this afternoon. Because, later today, in two … Continue reading
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Welcome to baby Martin! It’s a darned good thing that Saturdays are reserved for The Legal Genealogist‘s family around here, because BOY do I want to sing out! Just 11 months ago we welcomed a new nephew by marriage into … Continue reading
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The plight of the youngest This photo, the one below, breaks my heart. The people depicted are so very dear to me. From left to right, they are my Aunt Marianne, my Aunt Trisha, my grandmother Opal (Robertson) Cottrell, my … Continue reading
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A cousin lost She entered this world 98 years ago tomorrow — on the 21st of April 1915 — in Texas. And she left it 76 years ago today, on the 20th of April 1937 — one day shy of … Continue reading
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Great Uncle John I think I would have liked my great uncle John. I never knew him; he died 62 years ago yesterday at his home in his beloved adopted state of South Dakota. But everything I’ve ever heard of … Continue reading
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The missing pension Most folks whose families have been in America since oh-dark-thirty — defined roughly by The Legal Genealogist as after the Mayflower but before the Revolution — ended up with one or more ancestors involved in one or … Continue reading
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The one I never met We all have them. Those shadowy mysterious figures in our pasts whom we’d love to sit down with over a cup of coffee, just to try to get to know them. One of mine — … Continue reading
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The women of March Raised by the women who are stronger than you know A patchwork quilt of memory only women could have sewn The threads were stitched by family hands, protected from the moth By your mother and her … Continue reading
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